Robert Maclay (merchant)

Robert Maclay (1834–1898) was an American merchant, business executive, and civic activist. He engaged in real estate and banking in New York City and was appointed to various posts having to do with urban development.

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Robert Maclay
Born(1834-06-11)June 11, 1834
New York, New York
DiedJuly 28, 1898(1898-07-28) (aged 64)
Elberon, New Jersey
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery
NationalityAmerican
OccupationMerchant, business executive, civic activist
Spouse(s)
Georgiana Barmore
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(m. 1868)​
ChildrenRobert Maclay (son)
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Biography
Northern Dispensary

Robert Maclay was a graduate of Judson College, Mount Palatine, Illinois.[1]

He engaged in real estate and banking in New York City and was appointed to various posts having to do with urban development. Upon the death of his father-in-law, Alfred Barmore, he became president of Knickerbocker Ice Company — the largest ice company in the country.

On April 14, 1892, Maclay was appointed as member of the Rapid Transit Commission.[1] From 1891 until his death in 1898, he served as Chairman of the Building Commission for the New York City Board of Education. He presided as Chairman of the Building Commission when the American architect Charles B. J. Snyder was elected Superintendent of School Buildings in 1891.

Maclay was a Director of Bowery Savings Bank and a trustee of the Northern Dispensary. He was a trustee of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church and The Manhattan Club and was one of the incorporators of the New York Botanical Garden.[1]

He was a member of New York Historical Society, the New York Athletic Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Grolier Club, the Downtown Association,[2] the Brown Society of Glasgow, and the Advisory Committee of New York University.[1]

Family

Robert Maclay was born in New York City June 11, 1834, to the marriage of Robert Haldane Maclay, MD, and Eliza Maclay (née Labatut).[1]

On May 18, 1868, he married Georgiana Barmore, daughter of Alfred Barmore, former president of the Knickerbocker Ice Company. Robert and Georgiana had two children:

The elder Robert Maclay died in Elberon, New Jersey July 28, 1898.[4] He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.[5]

References
  1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. IV. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 467. Retrieved December 7, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. Downtown Association
  3. O.F. Thomas Now Heads Consolidated National; Is Elected President to Succeed Willis S. Paine., New York: The New York Times, November 1, 1905, p. 13, retrieved January 21, 2017
  4. Emerson Palmer, The New York Public School: Being a History of Free Education in The City of New York, Edwin C. Hill Company (1908).
  5. "Robert Maclay Buried". The New York Times. August 2, 1898. p. 12. Retrieved December 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.


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